After Show: I got an Instant Camera.

this makes me want one, but i need friend first

Muireann

ahh, watching this vid as a working photographer and also a old camera junk collector makes me happy

Super cool! I'm now inspired to use my instax camera from goodwill and I'll finally waste all that fim! also in USD it's still a dollar a photo :( wish it was 10 cents

those pictures were a bit over exposed, the camera is probably set up for impromptu indoor shots with sub optimal lighting. parties, family gatherings, and holidays. like how most people use cameras.

I'm sure someone else has said already, but the issue with not getting everything you saw in the viewfinder is what is known as "parallax error". The closer you get, the more incorrect the viewfinder gets. This is because the viewfinder doesn't have the same vantage point as the lens. Many old point and shoot cameras would have 2 sets of framelines with one set being intended to use for close up photos. If you have a REALLY fancy camera then the viewfinder will be mechanically linked to the focus and shift automatically to a parallax corrected view when necessary.

Ive been a photographer for over 7 years mate and i mostly shoot film 35mm or 120 and i occasionally use Polaroids as actual parts of my work there great. photography can be very experimental or conceptual. its not about the perfect exposure or the best lens art is objective. theres alot more that i can say here but im tired as and i dont wanna waste peoples time.

Man, lots of these feel like an Indie rock band cover. that first one with the TV i'd seriously hang on my wall too. nice lookin photo!

Something about that TV picture makes me think it would be an album cover in like 2002

If you want to have real fun, find an old Fuji Construction Camera. The photos it takes are wild, blues become over saturated, everything else is a bit under saturated, and it's just beautiful.

You didn't take a photo of Frank with that camera? For shame, DankPods. For shame.

lmao i used that exact same sad piano youtube free music track for a video i made a while back

Some of the photos of junk are actually kinda nice

You should take a look at fully mechanical film cameras that doesn’t use electricity at all!

Jason Jiang

Yup, those come out pretty expensive here as well where I live in South America

The film for those is ridiculously cheap in asia but stupid expensive here.

This after show reminds me of the camera reviews that Lazy Game Reviews does. He normally takes pictures of things that could be mistaken for the time period the camera was made in. So old cars in alley ways for example.

Techmoan did a video on this camera

Michael M

Look up the camera company "Mint cameras" they do very nice instant cameras

Looks like a kodak ektra (derogatory)

Yes! I was looking for someone who mentioned this! I always flip mine over immediately onto a flat surface or put them in a loose jacket pocket to develop, the colors are always deeper and less washed out!

Brandon Robinson

Local Boi discovers art: a retrospective. Fuck I do love film photography though, Love my Instax wide, love my 1980's Soviet nugget cameras and the 1960's Japanese cameras that have more and better features, Whole-heartedly agree that humans are just fancy monkeys who love shiny things

I unironically love some of those photos tbh lol

Al

Accidentally using the rule of thirds and taking better pics by not figuring out the viewfinder is trademark dank

theres dudes on tiktok going on carmeets with that camera just to give the pics to the car owner

pissgoat

And I instantly got more than I payed for.

G'day DankPods! Love your stuff! Been watching for a while now. I'm an announcer at a radio station in Sydney NSW, If you're interested, I'd love to get you on air for an Interview!

this is the first piece of old tech ive been pretty interested in, i mean he was handling them like collectible cards

Can we get an aftershow one day going over your mic setup?

put the pictures of the desk on ebay

You need to find a cassette to 3.5mm adapter to play scarlet fire through to the Craig cassette player

Mr AngryFatMan

I know this doesn’t have anything to do with this vid, but as a drummer, have you tried the “noise cancelling” Vic Firth headphones?

Michael Pollart

The only cameras where you can center the shot with the view finder are mirror reflex cameras. The viewfinder goes down a couple of mirrors and lets you see though the lens. While cameras like these have one that is away from the lens, so it's more tricky to get it centered correctly.

We want frank!

No photos of Frank?

Awesome! There was a time where Kodak weren’t making instant film (I wasn’t happy with Impossible Project film) and I considered the Instax mini photos too small. I bought an “Instax wide” camera and the photos are twice the size of the Instax mini photos. I still have and use it.

If you looking for a topic for a video I would check out Sonos speakers, I have a few in my house and I love the way they sound, I’d like to hear a comparison between them and your high end speakers in your setup, just a thought!

Just an FYI, if the “Viewfinder” isn’t actually going through the camera lens, thus leading to an inaccurate representation of your centering, then it’s a rangefinder.

Oh, man. I’m old enough that Polaroids were totally a thing during my childhood (idk if they still make the film, but if so, get an old Polaroid. They made the best clunking-wizzing noises, and they folded open with a big ass lightbulb on top… very steampunk. And you had to shake the picture after!) My sister has boxes and boxes of vaguely blurry pictures of red-eyed people in these square photos with the thick white border on the bottom that held all the chemicals. Here in the US, at least, it was pretty much just Polaroid for instant cameras, so much that “Polaroid” just meant an instant photo.

Joe Arnold

the film looks like amogus

You said you have a Ute?? Like a Holden Ute? If so I love those they never brought them to the states but I want one so bad lol. Can you show use the Ute in a video please. Love your videos bro!

Just found some Craigs hanging out at big lots here in the US

Uhh... I just found this gem. https://poshmark.com/listing/MP3-Shower-Radio-Amplifier-splash-proof-FM-NEW-5eeaa4b767bd9117a2108391

I just became a patron I freaking love this channel

I got into Polaroid 600s again myself

Stephen Greer

I must say, the best way to make memories on my vacations is the duo Instax + Instagram Stories. It's nice to hang them on the wall and just pass by.

I've had my Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic for about half a year and I enjoy it. I don't shoot it near as much as 35mm because of the cost per picture, but I brought it on my vacation with friends and it was so much fun!

Zeke

so bunch of discarded property pics😂

These pictures aren't even bad, which makes it even more funny

I've always wanted an instant camera. They have a great novelty to them, but there's something about the looks of the pictures that's just nostalgic and charming.

I love it.

I got an instax camera off of my uncle for my birthday last year! I made the mistake of trying to take a photo on the plastic cover.. huge diappointment

You make Australia look like Brazil with the pictures you take, not sure how to feel about that

the_trash_mane

I’ve actually been doing a project where I take a Polaroid a day for a year! Highly recommend getting an actual Polaroid brand one, the pics are bigger and they’re just neat to mess around with!

Lochlan McCoy

No photo of Frank, I am disappointed

CJMAXiK

I'm surprised you didn't talk about how the photos are vertical.

Love instant cams! I bring them to photo meetups in my area (cause i find them boring) and it’s a great way to make it fun while everyone else is using their pro cameras. Not that I don’t love my Panasonic… shes my baby

Techmoan has done some of these, might be worth a look at his videos

Elliot Reid

Oh hell yeah weird cameras are the best, I've got a bit of a collection going of odd film cameras and stuff like the 110 freaks I have are just absolute blasts to shoot on even if the photos look like ass 90% of the time. I've got an old Polaroid too that I keep meaning to use but finding film and battery packs for them seems to be stupid hard, some listings say the new packs work in old cameras and others don't, so I've never felt comfortable getting film for it.

You say you don't want one with Bluetooth because you are afraid of it losing software support, yet I would be more worried about those companies stopping the production of the film for the instant cameras 😅

Mattis. Probably.

Personally I would love to own (or even just hold for that matter) a Nikon F2. It's such a beautiful camera :)

Mattis. Probably.

I got myself a small portable hp printer to get stuff out that I shot with my phone, I prefer it that way, relatively the same size but the technology is different and it's much less "vintage"

Me and my Girlfriend actually want to get some Cameras aswell, me personally I want the Canon F1 while my girlfriend wants a Polaroid instant camera

I buy it for my wedding :D guest had something fun to do :D

The amount of rubbish on your 2 minute walk screams Davo park 🤣🤣

Patrick

I hope you went back and grabbed that office carpet. That would look cool somewhere in the warehouse.

OzRetrocomp

Actually, as a photographer, I can say these pictures you took are not half bad. Some of them are exhibition material. (I am not joking. 😄)

Nikolay Ivanov

I got a vintage 1992 Polaroid. Love it.

Good.

Didn't know I had to turn it on! I'll defs figure it out when I find the time Frank has wasted

yo instax owner here! The viewfinder is only for roughly lining up the photo. You might notice that the viewfinder doesn't actually go through the lens like it does on a DSLR, but is instead just a plastic porthole through the camera. I don't know about the actual fuji ones, but mine (made by lomography and uses the fuji film cartridges) has a some markings in the viewfinder that sort of simulate out the edges of the photo being taken. Anyways hope you enjoy the camera! They're super fun for little photoshoots and at parties

Jvc ha-nc250 will blow u mind

SigSpearThumb

I'm a hobby photographer with 35mm film, I'd love to dip my toes into polaroid/instax as I may have access to an older camera. but give 35mm a try. incredible quality and just lots of fun.

I'd love to see more of this! Keep getting more of these!

Nichtsda

orange

Used to call those Polaroids

Hey, what a coincidence, I just got an instax square film camera and also had lots of fun with it so far!

Keep it up

Instax Square is a good middle ground between color quality and picture size, IMHO. neither beats 35mm, though.

I see Patreon uploads faster than I see Youtube subscriptions, so the after show is literally my notification for there being a new main channel video. Hahha.

Maxwell_Edison

I've been tempted to get a polaroid before, but the crappy quality puts me off. I have an old film camera which I should use more, there's something extra delightful about film.

Kaisea

Boi, polaroids are awesome! The only downside imo is that the cartridges are a bit hard to find tho. I have a One Step SX-70, the classic with the rainbow sticker.

I can't wait to get a polaroid camera I think they're so cool. But i'm focusing on 35mm film right now, testing new waters with that

You should have named this episone After Shot instead of Show :)

Sauwercraud

Any chance you'll ever turn on Clips for your public videos? The memes people could make.

I totally get you on the tactile stuff. Having something physical to hand is great. I did look into instant cameras like that, but they seemed a bit pricy. Instead, I went full nerd and hooked up a receipt printer to a Raspberry Pi and got it to automatically print every photo I take with my phone. After being on a trip, I come home to a roll of questionably dithered photos and it's amusing seeing which ones came out well and which ones are garbage.

Peter Shillito

Videos like this are the exact reason why I pay this dollaryoo. You're so unapologetically fascinated and hyped by the stuff you're talking about it's just pure joy to listen to you. But we didn't see Frank at the end of the video so I have to say GARBAGE!

No pic of Frank? *Sad Aussie sounds*

So much memories with one of those kind. I have a map of Portugal that's being built with pictures like that. Big errand but is going

Nuno Campos

next up, an aftershow filmed in stop motion using the instax

You're selling yourself short. You should have called that one you took while walking "Life in Motion, part 4" What happened to the other 3 parts? Well that's the mystery

Atriark Ijadi

what do i have to do to get that polaroid of your setup dank :)

My sister has one of these from Polaroid and she loves it.

KIDPogue

its like the same appeal as lofi music.... just a good time

TellTaleHeart

Yeah, instant cameras don’t really do parallax correction (the viewfinder and frame lines issue you mentioned) all that well. The only ones I know of with that are a couple of high end ones that cost close to $1000 U.S. and a few of the really old peel apart roll film Polaroids of the 1950s and 1960s. The Polaroid SX-70 and its variations also don’t have to worry about that because they are SLR cameras, so what you see is what you get. But still, cool camera, nice photos and thanks for talking about your dive into instant photography!

Go check out Ben over at "In An Instant" on YouTube. One of my favorite instant film YouTube channels. I own quite a few Polaroid Cameras, my oldest working one is from 1974-ish "SX-70 Sonar" (yes it uses sonar for auto focus) and that boi has traveled the world with me, even all the way to Australia back in Jan 2019. My oldest Polaroid Camera is from the 1940s, it works kinda but no film is sold for it anymore. I have some of the newer Polaroid cameras too, the most recent one being a "Polaroid Go", tiny little nugget and I love it. It is indeed an expensive hobby, but I have taken some of my most favorite photos on these instant Cameras, and because film is so expensive it really does make you think more about a shot before taking it.

TH3mrBROWN

Ah yes the good ol' parallax error, ruining photos since, I don't know like, the 1910's.

Charlie Markley

Love that you made a video talking about Instax! I'm a huge fan of the OG polaroids themselves; the films are more expensive but the image quality is heaps better (on account of the exposed area being so much larger than the fuji films) and you can get proper vintage ones on sites other than Ebay (although I did get a fair few Polaroids on there) instead of buying a refurbished one on the official Polaroid site. Would strongly recommend them if you were thinking of going down this path a wee bit more!

charitablecoffeemaker

The fact that instax mini 40 is written in comic sans is seriously breaking my zen

Morgan Drake

Here mate, dunno if you know this but craig are still making stuff

Chad Branston

i have their printer. Not as cool, but you can center your pictures and use it to print out overpriced business cards

I just bought myself a Fuji instant camera with 27 exposures after looking at a bunch of old photos recovered from a flood damaged basement and I’m going to use it to take some vintage style images. Have fun with the Instax Dank. Hope to see Shrek in one of them.

as a large format and 120 photo guy, i laugh at how small it is

I’m doing the thing.

i want one now

and yes i'm a broke uni ba student.. as i shoot that

ha ha ha ha ha ha, a dollar a photo laughs in 4x5/10x8 large format at roughly 10-15 uk POUNDS A PHOTO

My dad got me a Kodak Trimprint™ instant camera when I was a kid. I think I was able to use it like 3 months before Polaroid sued the bajesus out of Kodak.

Rodney Hubbard

He actually said "double a" instead of "AA!" Im impressed and disappointed at the same time

I love my instax mini 90. It's got a few extra features like extra modes including double exposure, a tripod mount, and auto ejecting the plastic cover when you put in a new film cartrige. That being said, it has its own proprietary battery, so it's definitely not better in every way. It really is addictive to start buying the cameras and doing instant photography again. It's like my early childhood all over again.

Connor Nolan

Damn. This brings backs many memories

As a Polaroid guy I loath those instax cameras 😂😂😂😂

If you ever want to have a fundraiser for anything, you could always auction off your photography. That is some classic stuff there.

FullmetalOwlchemist

A way to make it less washed out is to cover it while it is developing. I’ve noticed it allows a lot more contrast in the developed image :)

I'm curious, what ever happened to the Tooheys speaker you got from Cashies? Are you still going to pimp it out with better speakers?

The camera is so instant that we got the video about it before the main video.

CavifaX

It's basically the mini 40 but with more control over there shot

one thing I’d say is to avoid the Polaroid branded cameras/film. Their new film is incredibly disappointing due to long standing quality issues that they refuse to fix.

woah this is a new experience! finally catching an after show when it’s released!

If you want another good Fujifilm instant camera, check the mini 90 neo. Doesn't need an app, but has more features like exposer correction, high shutter speed for fast objects, and a cool double exposure mode!

Where is the public vid. Want to watch it in order😭😂

tfw aftershow comes before main show

Jekrix Lokan

"Hey, it's the after show" Or the warm up for me. I end up watching this before the public vid XD

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